Table 5. Average paid holidays and days of vacation and sick leave for full-time employees
Table 5. Average paid holidays and days of vacation and sick leave for full-time
employees in small private establishments, 1996
Professional,
All technical, Clerical Blue-collar
Leave category full-time and and sales and service
employees related employees(2) employees(3)
employees(1)
Paid holidays................... 7.6 8.5 7.7 7.0
Paid vacation days after
specified years of
service:(4)
1 year....................... 8.1 10.0 8.6 6.8
3 years...................... 10.2 11.7 10.5 9.2
5 years...................... 11.9 13.8 12.3 10.7
10 years..................... 13.9 16.0 14.3 12.5
15 years..................... 14.8 17.0 15.4 13.4
20 years..................... 15.4 17.6 16.1 13.8
25 years..................... 15.7 17.8 16.4 14.1
Paid sick leave days after
specified years of
service:(4)
1 year....................... 8.0 8.5 7.0 8.8
3 years...................... 8.7 9.0 8.1 9.2
5 years...................... 9.5 9.6 9.4 9.6
10 years..................... 10.3 9.9 10.6 10.1
15 years..................... 10.5 10.2 11.0 10.1
20 years..................... 10.8 10.5 11.7 10.1
25 years..................... 10.9 10.6 11.7 10.1
1 Includes professional, technical, executive, and administrative occupations.
2 Includes clerical, administrative support, and sales occupations.
3 Includes production, craft, repair, laborer, and service occupations.
4 A specific number of days granted after completion of the indicated service or
accrued during the next years.
NOTE: Computed averages exclude days at partial pay and workers in plans that do not
stipulate at least 1 full day.
United States Department of Labor
